March 27, 2016

"Out-of-control adults push children to the ground, steal their buckets and leave one four-year-old 'bloody' at chaotic free event/Children were trampled as 1,000 people stormed the PEZ center field/9,000 eggs were laid out on three different age-bracketed sections/But when the egg hunt started, 'parents stormed the field stealing eggs'/One four-year-old was left 'bloody', many toddlers 'pushed into the mud.'"

The idiots have raised morons who are now parents. My mother taught us long ago to stay away from "free" events. Nothing to keep out the riff-raff and we now have riff-raff in droves. Glad my mother isn't around to see it.

Lots of bad behavior, but most of the blame falls on PEZ for lousy organization. I can easily picture chaos erupting as parents send their small children into the field, see some adults go out, move in to make sure their own kids don't lose out, then shift to protecting their kids as things start to feel dangerous, and finally madness.

Look at where the interests lie. Of course once security broke down things spun out of control.

Interesting. The Easter Egg Hunt was held in my small Southeast Texas hometown on Friday. Nothing like this happened. Everyone seemed to have a wonderful time. Prizes given. The high school baseball team helped the children. Complete unity and accord. even with a racially mixed crowd.

Oh, the Daily Mail. The gift that keeps on giving. My wife and I know that they'll always give us ALL the information we want about a crime suspect, including ethnicity and religion, and not just the information our media betters think we need to know.

I thought I would look at the demographics of the town. Sounds like a bunch of Cruz voters to me. ;)

"The median income for a household in the town was $79,365, and the median income for a family was $88,583. Males had a median income of $58,946 versus $41,563 for females. The per capita income for the town was $36,471. About 2.1% of families and 2.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.4% of those under age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or over.[11]"

And as for the serial rapist who went to meet his Maker after meeting up with a trailer whilst watching porn on his cell phone? Put him first in line for this year's Darwin Awards. Tough to beat a performance like that.

Lots of bad behavior, but most of the blame falls on PEZ for lousy organization. I can easily picture chaos erupting as parents send their small children into the field, see some adults go out, move in to make sure their own kids don't lose out, then shift to protecting their kids as things start to feel dangerous, and finally madness.

This is exactly what it is. I have seen it several times in California. Parents wanting to protect their kids, mostly. Especially toddlers who have no idea what to do and get knocked down by bigger children.

How about Orange , New Jersey ? Maybe the reference is to the color, not the fruit. Some pranksters in Chicago when I was in high school painted over the green center line in a street in the Irish neighborhood, painted there for St patrick's Day parade, with Orange. That's the color of the northern Irish Protestants. Maybe they settled those towns in New England.

At least 63 people, mostly women and children, were killed and more than 300 others were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a children's park in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province on Sunday evening, officials said.

Professor, your comment at 1:45 literally made me laugh out loud (or, at least, chuckle audibly). (I write it all the time but rarely do it.) I imagine that was as close to "snippy" as you allow yourself to post. I liked it; you should do it more often. :)